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Admission quota for medical students maintained, Dewan Negara told

20 Jun 2023 03:18pm
Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin at the Dewan Negara - FILE PIX
Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin at the Dewan Negara - FILE PIX
KUALA LUMPUR - The admission quota of medical students to local institutions of higher learning has been maintained, the Dewan Negara was told today.

Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin the admission quota of medical students allowed by the Ministry of Health (MOH) was 4,820 people per year but the actual number of graduates was lower, about 4,000 people per year.

"The ministry will continue to maintain the quota, because there are many applications to study medicine and the fees set for local universities are cheap, so we are actually democratising education.

"We allow many to apply for medicine, if we reduce (the intake) in the country then of course some will have to go abroad and the cost is very high," he said when replying to a question from Prof Tan Sri Dr Mohamed Haniffa Abdullah.

Mohamed Khaled said 2,401 medical graduates were produced in 2020 while 3,132 in 2021 and 3,934 in 2022.
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